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Taipei 101 Elevator, Fastest in the World


We thought that elevator zipping us to the 103rd floor of the Sears Tower was fast, but this one in the Taipei 101 building has been named the world's fastest by the Guinness Book of World Records. This one moves so quickly, it needs to be aerodynamically designed, roaring from the fifth floor to the 89th floor at a breakneck speed of 37.7mph. So is that treacly music they're playing supposed to make our descent seem even faster, or magical? Ha. Enough of that. Let's look at some pics of the elevator's innards. More »

10:20 AM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By Charlie White
21,169 views, 38 comments

Latest by demonwolf: the camera dude did it wrong when it start going down your supposed to jump more »

world's fastest

IBM to Build $200 Million Petaflop Supercomputer

According to some leaked government documents, IBM is working on building a monstrous $200 million petaflop supercomputer. Commissioned by the National Science Foundation, it would be the fastest computer in the world, the first to break the petaflop barrier. For you folks keeping track at home, a petaflop is a thousand trillion mathematical operations per second. Yeah, that's fast. More »

1:45 PM on Mon Aug 6 2007
By Adam Frucci
14,196 views, 37 comments

Latest by Lewis Sellers: @SOLOSALSA: (Laughs) I just read that again recently. Good job. more »

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World's Fastest Toilet is Jet-Propelled, not Powered by Farts

Well, Flame Grill my Whopper and call it Professor Caractacus Potts! Is there nothing sacred any more? Not even those precious moments when a man wants a little peace in the world so that he can go about his daily business without being disturbed? It seems not, but then the British always were a little strange. This is, apparently, the world's fastest toilet. Powered by a Boeing Jet engine, the $10,000 vehicle's top speed is in excess of 70mph, and it farts flames from its tailpipe - rather like, I would imagine, a man forced to eat ten vindaloos one after another. More »

9:35 AM on Fri May 4 2007
By Addy Dugdale
6,934 views, 24 comments

Latest by pcdsim: Dayum!! That's a lot of burritos. more »

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World's Fastest Digital Camera

A group of 20 scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have spent the past five years developing this project. The 8-foot-tall camera can take images at less than two-billionths of a second. The project, called the Regional Calorimeter Trigger, is used to take pictures of colliding particles. This $6 million digicam will finally be put to the test later this year when it is shipped to the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. Good luck, Swiss-Wisconsinites. More »

5:35 AM on Fri Feb 10 2006
By Travis Hudson
1,126 views, 6 comments

Latest by davebach: Does this thing do "bullet time?" more »